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1 99 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1950. The life history of the Everglades rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni. Herpetologica 6:109–112.
2 127 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1953. The yellow rat snake. Florida Wildlife 6(8):6–7.
3 136 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1988. Florida Herps. The life history of the Everglades rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (December):23–26.
4 861 Bartram, J., and W. Bartram. 1957. John and William Bartram's America: selections from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists. [Edited with an introduction by H. G. Cruickshank.] Devin-Adair Company, New York, New York, USA. 418pp.
5 879 Beck, W. H., Jr. 1948. An ecological study of the cold-blooded vertebrates of a north Florida lake. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 123pp.
6 952 Bennetts, R. E., and E. L. Caton. 1988. An observed incidence of rat snake predation of snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) chicks in Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 16:14–16.
7 953 Bennetts, R. E., M. W. Collopy, and S. R. Beissinger. 1988. Nesting ecology of snail kites in Water Conservation Area 3A. Department of Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 31. 174pp.
8 1391 Carr, A. 1994. The moss forest. Pages 165–186 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
9 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
10 8610 Carter, G. M., M. L. Legare, D. R. Breininger, and D. M. Oddy. 2007. Nocturnal nest predation: a potential obstacle to recovery of a Florida scrub-jay population. Journal of Field Ornithology 78:390–394.
11 2456 Foster, G. W., S. R. Humphrey, and P. P. Humphrey. 1978. Survival rate of young southeastern brown bats, Myotis austroriparius, in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 59:299–304.
12 2489 Franz, R. 1995. Habitat use, movements, and home range in two species of ratsnakes (genus Elaphe) in a North Florida sand hill. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Project Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 62pp.
13 2511 Frederick, P. C., and M. W. Collopy. 1988. Reproductive ecology of wading birds in relation to water conditions in the Florida Everglades. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 30, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 259pp.
14 6801 Frederick, P. C., and M. W. Collopy. 1989. The role of predation in determining reproductive success of colonially nesting wading birds in the Florida Everglades. Condor 91:860–867.
15 6996 Gault, K. E., J. R. Walters, J. Tomcho, Jr., L. F. Phillips, Jr., and A. Butler. 2004. Nest success of southeastern American kestrels associated with red-cockaded woodpeckers in old-growth longleaf pine habitat in Northwest Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 3:191–204.
16 2690 Goin, O. B. 1955. The world outside my door. MacMillan, New York, New York, USA. 184pp.
17 2752 Grimes, S. A. 1947. Birds of Duval County (continued). Florida Naturalist 21:1–13.
18 9287 Hastings, A. K.. 2010. Pantherophis alleghaniensis (eastern ratsnake). Diet. Herpetological Review 41:371.
19 2943 HaySmith, L. 1995. Neotoma floridana floridana natural history, populations, and movements in north-central Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 38, Part II:211–243.
20 3139 Howard, P. 1995. Neat stuff. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 12(4):8–10.
21 3289 Jackson, J. A. 1974. Gray rat snakes versus red-cockaded woodpeckers: predator-prey adaptations. Auk 91:342–347.
22 3290 Jackson, J. A. 1978. Predation by a gray rat snake on red-cockaded woodpecker nestlings. Bird-Banding 49:187–188.
23 7988 Layne, J. N. 1972. Tail autotomy in the Florida mouse, Peromyscus floridanus. Journal of Mammalogy 53:62–71.
24 3986 May, P. G., and T. M. Farrell. 1997. Death from above: adventures with arboreal snakes. Reptiles Magazine 5(9):77–83.
25 10565 Mendyk, R. W., and A. F. Rost. 2018. Herpetological history of the Jacksonvile Zoo and Gardens. Herpetological Review 49:573-587.
26 4247 Meshaka, W. E., Jr. 2001. The Cuban treefrog in Florida: life history of a successful colonizing species. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 191pp.
27 4256 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and B. Ferster. 1995. Two species of snakes prey on Cuban treefrogs in southern Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 23:97–98.
28 4338 Mitchell, M. C., L. B. Best, and J. P. Gionfriddo. 1996. Avian nest-site selection and nesting success in two Florida citrus groves. Wilson Bulletin 108:573–583.
29 10083 Muñoz, A. S. 2012. Behavioral analysis of yellow ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata), a predator of the threatened Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in the Kennedy Sapce Center's Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. M.S. Thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA. 104pp.
30 9843 Munoz, A., K. Rigano, and M. Grace. 2013. Behavioral and neuroanatomical analyses of yellow ratsnakes as predators of the threatened Florida scrub-jay. Florida Scientist 76(Supplement 1):29–30 (abstract).
31 4513 Murrill, W. A. 1945. Reptiles good and bad. William A. Murrill, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 32pp.
32 5112 Rice, D. W. 1955. Life history and ecology of Myotis austroriparius. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 75pp.
33 5113 Rice, D. W. 1957. Life history and ecology of Myotis austroriparius in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 38:15–32.
34 7457 Staller, E. L., W. E. Palmer, W. E., J. P. Carroll, R. P. Thornton, and D. C. Sisson. 2005. Identifying predators at northern bobwhite nests. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:124–132.
35 5675 Stowe, H. B. 1873. Palmetto-leaves. J. R. Osgood and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 321pp.
36 5727 Sykes, P. W. 1987. Some aspects of the breeding biology of the snail kite in Florida. Journal of Field Ornithology 58:171–189.
37 7959 White, N. C., and G. E. Woofenden. 1973. Breeding of the eastern bluebird in Central Florida. Journal of Field Ornithology 44:110–122.
38 6141 Will, L. E. 1964. Lawrence Will's cracker history of Okeechobee: "custard apple, moonvine, catfish and moonshine." Great Outdoors, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. 308pp.

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